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It’s always easier to think someone else should do something [that won’t really affect you personally] so that you feel good about yourself vs taking the hard a
by cascom 7y ago
It’s always easier to think someone else should do something [that won’t really affect you personally] so that you feel good about yourself vs taking the hard actions involved in making changes yourself.
In this case wanting their employer to do something - safe in the knowledge that google is so big it won’t show up in their paycheck. I would be shocked to learn (and this is conjecture on my part) that the typical google employee leads a truly low carbon lifestyle (petrochemical, electricity, transportation included)
- ahelwer 7y agoI highly doubt that Google employees, who earn in the top 10% of incomes in one of the highest-per-capita emissions countries in the world, have a low carbon lifestyle by any standards.